Just How Correlated Are Silicon Valley Housing Prices And Venture Activity? (dive in)
Capital deployed into Silicon Valley-based companies is correlated to housing prices. Additionally, deal volume may predict peaks and troughs a few years in advance.
Editor's Note: scroll down to discover 6 open startup/VC jobs
Weekly Digest: Top 10 Featured Posts
Sara Deshpande of Maven Ventures describes what founders can do to set themselves up for a successful exit in "Lessons from Inside Six Startup Exits"
Ash Rust of Trinity Ventures discusses how investors can hurt your company in "How to Avoid Bad Terms that Kill Startups"
Isaac Madan of Venrock walks through the timing and purpose of an IPO, and articulates advantages and disadvantages for IPOs and M&A scenarios in “Going Public vs. Being Acquired”
David Coats of Correlation Ventures proposes a different definition of startup winners to put up on the pedestal and celebrate and seek to fund in “Unicorns are Overrated. Triple Crowns are Better.”
Mahesh Vellanki of Redpoint Ventures makes predictions about Uber’s imminent IPO by cobbling together publicly released metrics in “Here’s What A 2017 Uber IPO Could Look Like”
Sam DeBrule of Canopy shares a comprehensive list of artificial intelligence resources in “The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence”
Andy Sparks formerly of Mattermark provides a primer on gene editing for the rest of us in “Everything You Should Know About CRISPR — And Where to Learn More”
Sara Mauskopf of Winnie outlines five things she did that bought her time when her days were already full in “How to Start a Company With No Free Time”
Vasil Azarov of StartupSocials breaks out 80 sales, product, data science, and technical tools into three growth-centric categories categories: brand, process, and customer in “Growth Marketing Lessons from the Top Industry Leaders”
Daniel Ahn of Upsider recaps a story of how one sales candidate aced her interview and ended up getting hired by a sales manager who would have never considered someone with her background in “The Best Salesperson I Ever Interviewed”
Venture Capitalists, Cognitive Bias, And The Dangers Of Learning From The Past
Investors are known for following one another, sometimes over a cliff. But what drives, and influences investor thinking when it comes to picking companies? Sonya Mann reports.
Tech IPOs Slow To A Crawl As 2016 Heads To A Close as Snapchat Eyes IPO In 2017
Snapchat’s widely-rumored IPO appears to be a go for early 2017. If successful, it could help other private unicorns make the leap into the public markets. Conversely, the tail-end of the 2016 tech IPO market looks slow.
Startup & VC Job Openings
Mattermark - Sales, Product Marketing, Design, and Engineering in San Francisco.
Rachio - Account Executive, Designers, Product Managers in Denver, CO.
Arcadia Power - Full-stack Engineer in Washington, DC.
App Academy - Marketing, Ops, Product in New York City & San Francisco.
High Alpha - Software Engineer in Indianapolis, IN.
Oxford Valuration Partners - Chief of Staff & Product Lead in New York City.
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